mleku on Nostr: decentralised nostr is rapidly becoming impossible without auth it's the same shit ...

decentralised nostr is rapidly becoming impossible without auth

it's the same shit that happens to shitcoin databases... you give away data for free and the entire internet is queuing up to download a copy

quoting nevent1q…4cuy

reason 10342 why nostr nip-42 auth is important

relay spiders make incredibly expensive requests constantly all day long that chew huge amounts of processing and disk access time usually for nothing

simply by requiring auth the spiders go away

it's actually mandatory for me to enable this because it really seems to me like nostr traffic has reached a point where you cannot possibly run a relay without inordinate infra unless you control access and limit it to your intended purposes